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• coco
  coco

  noun

  coconut palm.
• Coco
  Coco

  noun

  a river rising in N Nicaragua and flowing NE along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.

coco

¹ American  

[koh-koh] / ˈkoʊ koʊ /

noun

• cocos
  plural

1. coconut palm.

2. coconut.

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Coco ² American  

[koh-koh, kaw-kaw] / ˈkoʊ koʊ, ˈkɔ kɔ /

noun

1. a river rising in N Nicaragua and flowing NE along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.

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coco British  

/ ˈkəʊkəʊ /

noun

1. short for coconut coconut palm

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cocos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of coco

1545–55; < Portuguese: grimace; the three holes at the nut's base give it this appearance

Example Sentences

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And as soon as the sun rises, there should be mangoes waiting for them underneath the coco tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

It's just basically putting condensed milk and usually just some cream-based type of milky liquid, and also just all these canned cocktail fruit, just the jellies that we were talking about, nata de coco.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2023

I wanted coconut drops, a spicy beef patty with coco bread, kola champagne, and some bun and cheese for later.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022

Or maybe, if you’re lucky, it’s simply pulled from your oven, tossed directly from your baking pan into the loaf of coco bread on your counter.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022

Then I move on to kolan guete, and zozo, bounda, coco.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

See: Coco Gauff was asked if she’ll use her $3 million US Open winnings to pay off debt.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Two other Dana Point Harbor dining establishments will be relocating: Coco Bloom Coffee is moving to Newport Beach, and Frisby Cellars Winery will operate out of its location in Rancho Mission Viejo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

American Airlines flights continue to land at Havana’s airport, and Echevarría has yet to set foot on Cayo Coco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Tracy Austin, a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 1979, added: "Great movement from Coco Gauff. To me she looks just as fit as she was at the start of the match. Muchova looking a little fatigued."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

"Madame Coco Chocolata will see you now!" he announced in a deep voice.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

For its fruit, of course, with its prime role in snacks like cocos preparados or in rich guisados and seafood dishes that are known along the whole Pacific coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Cohen & Steers’ Cordes also sees better value in the institutional preferreds, especially what are known as contingent capital securities, or cocos.

From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025

The irony is that even those shunning Deutsche’s cocos accept that its cushion of capital is relatively thick, at 11%.

From Economist ● Feb. 11, 2016

Among his favorite investments are convertible contingent bonds, or cocos.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2015

In most of our colonies large crops of the finest descriptions of yams, cocos, &c., could be obtained, but the planting of ground provisions is too much neglected by all classes.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds